Beyond the Finger Pointing and Finding Unity in the Great Human Search for Truth
- Apr 2, 2025
- 5 min read
Written by Dr. JC Doornick, Health Transformation Coach – Podcaster
Dr. JC Doornick is a leader in Health Transformation, sense making and the human I.R.S.-(Interface response system). After a spontaneous recovery from a life-threatening traumatic event, Dr. JC made it his lifelong commitment to pay forward his concepts and strategies to dramatically shift one's perspectives to reclaim control as the dominant creator of your reality.
Hmmm? I was editing my upcoming book and going over a concept in it called the crazy wall. A crazy wall, aka investigation board, is used by investigators and detectives to place all the elements of a crime up on a wall and attempt to use red yarn and thumbtacks to piece them all together to make sense of and solve the crime. I was prompted to consider how all of humanity's unique and different philosophies, religious beliefs, and opinions were like post-its pinned to one big crazy wall, all seeming to interconnect and, like fingers, point to the same universal truth. Make Sense?
Where do you find yourself at this time? Are you a finger uniquely pointing at the universal truth of all mankind? Or are you sitting in the space of that truth, taking note of all the fingers pointed toward it, wondering why so many believe their finger is the way?
Here is an interesting way to make a self-assessment to that question. How do you feel and respond to the following statement?
“The universal truth is that you are not separate. You are the universe, in temporary form, awakening to itself.”
Does that awaken a feeling of discomfort and a need to say “well? Not exactly.” Or need to say, “Well, there’s more to it than that.” Or do you find yourself saying, “Hmmm? Interesting”
Here is a quote that stopped me in my tracks. It felt like a whisper from some universal force that wanted to share a secret with me. It came from a beautiful three-part film I often watch called Samadhi by Awaken the World Films. This was from Part Two, It’s Not What You Think.
“It is said that one can learn from many or all forms of religion and philosophies without needing to identify with any one of them. If one were to untether from any one spiritual teaching, they would observe that every one of them represents a finger pointing at the same transcendent truth. If we hold onto the dogma, the teaching for comfort, we will be stunted in our spiritual evolution.”
Hmmm?
Why do we humans do this? Why do we tether so tightly to our interpretations, our stories, our belief systems? Why are we so committed to thinking that our way of making sense of and seeing the truth is the absolute?
We see it with religion, politics, spirituality, science, culture, gender, and even with health and nutrition. We seem to latch onto an idea, a philosophy, a belief, and we wear it proudly like a badge. But in doing so, we forget that it, and we are not the truth itself. We’re just one of the many fingers pointing toward it. The truth is not the pointing finger; it is the thing the finger is pointing at.
What’s fascinating is that every religious or philosophical tradition, if you strip away the rituals, the clothing, the accents, the dogma, seems to be saying the same thing. At the core of it all is a call to something greater, a desire to transcend suffering, a hunger for peace, a return to wholeness, and an acknowledgment of something eternal.
But instead of standing in the mystery together, we get caught arguing about whose finger is pointing more accurately. How did we learn to identify with the finger and not the thing the finger points at?
Consider this.
Had you been born in a different part of the world, raised in a different family, exposed to a different culture or language, you’d have a completely different name, identity, and belief system, and you’d likely believe that was the truth. Can you see how malleable this all is? How much of your finger of truth is due to geography? How much of your certainty has been inherited?
This doesn’t mean your beliefs are wrong or unworthy. It means they’re yours. Beautifully, uniquely yours. But they’re still just one interpretation of something that transcends words and frameworks.
What if we considered waking up to a deeper distinction? We can honor the path that brought us here, our teachers, our practices, and our narratives without mistaking the path for the destination.
It’s okay to appreciate the view from your mountaintop while taking note of the many other peaks. And maybe, just maybe, they’re all looking out over the same infinite horizon.
This open and curious recognition doesn’t mean your system and narrative are wrong. It just allows you to be less different and more human.
It points out the beauty of your culture yet refrains from needing it to be superior. It allows you to see it as familiar. Dropping the need to see your beliefs as the ultimate truth, seeing them as a well thought out explanation of the truth.
So what’s the practical takeaway here?
When you start practicing perception through the lens of open curiosity rather than certainty, you begin to unlock and claim control of what I call your Interface Response System. This allows you to take a curious pause before reacting, to process and observe the world as it is, not as you’ve been taught it is.
This creates a space for unity. For empathy. For peace.
Imagine what would happen if we collectively adopted this kind of conscious perception. What if we recognized that our religions, philosophies, political affiliations, and even our trauma stories are just different fingers we choose that point to the same thing?
What if we stopped arguing about the shape of our finger, and started standing together in the shared light of what it’s pointing toward?
I’ll leave you with this.
Maybe the “point” isn’t to find the “right” finger. It’s to learn how to see with your heart what all the fingers are pointing at.
Makes Sense?
Dr. JC Doornick, Health Transformation Coach – Podcaster
Dr. JC Doornick is a leader in Health Transformation, sense making and the human I.R.S.-(Interface response system). After a spontaneous recovery from a life-threatening traumatic event, Dr. JC made it his lifelong commitment to pay forward his concepts and strategies to dramatically shift one's perspectives to reclaim control as the dominant creator of your reality. As the CEO of Doornick Enterprises, and the host of the Rise up with Dragon podcast, and co-founder of the Makes Sense Academy, his mission is to positively impact the world one perspective at a time.
